News Forum - Moderna leader says vaccine likely less effective against Omicron

[Thaiger]

The head of American vaccine maker Moderna said in an interview with Financial Times that their vaccine may not be strongly effective against the new Omicron variant. Stephane Bancel said in an interview published yesterday that it will take months to develop a new version of the vaccine that is tested and confirmed to be effective against the new strain of Covid-19 that is causing a global panic. Omicron is still so new that solid data is not yet available, so there is some hope that the new variant won’t be as vaccine resistant, severe, or transmissible as many fear, […]

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[HiuMak]

19 minutes ago, Thaiger said:

The head of American vaccine maker Moderna said in an interview with Financial Times that their vaccine may not be strongly effective against the new Omicron variant. Stephane Bancel said in an interview published yesterday that it will take months to develop a new version of the vaccine that is tested and confirmed to be effective against the new strain of Covid-19 that is causing a global panic. Omicron is still so new that solid data is not yet available, so there is some hope that the new variant won’t be as vaccine resistant, severe, or transmissible as many fear, […]

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Moderna is having a different theory to Pfizer. Who is correct?

[mickkotlarski]

2 minutes ago, HiuMak said:

Moderna is having a different theory to Pfizer. Who is correct?

For now both are still theories. Let them debate as it will be more stimulus for research. Not only to combat the virus but to argue and prove each other wrong.

[Prosaap]

Scared people buy more 

[Jason]

Ok...there are about 220 people in the world so far that have Omicron (which sounds like a transformer toy). They have only just worked out the genomic sequence of this strain to be able to identify it! Then it's being blamed on Africa and now we learn the first case was actually in the Netherlands! So maybe the CEO of Moderna, and the rest of us for that matter, need to take a chill pill and see what happens. 

[kalyan]

we are doomed, slowly we are become ginny pigs, this guys are daily detecting new forms of killers, we need to get injected with the same killers ( active and inactive).

there is no guarantee we stop with O Micron, we will find more variants and new vaccines.

possibly everyday morning to office, we stand in queue to get vaccine shot and return back home we get another.